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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 16, 201415 counties in Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this fire weather watch at Mar 16, 2014, 4:19 AM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Mar 17, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 16, 2014, 4:19 AM CDT (09:19 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 17, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 16, 2014, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS

Counties Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this fire weather watch went out at Mar 16, 3:45 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 3:45 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 8:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDDCBarber38 min
Mar 16, 2:00 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDDCClark, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 15 more29 hr

Nearby

Fire Weather Watches in Kansas, 2014Every fire weather watch in 2014

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.